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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: If I may focus on that, the development plan is one of the key powers that local councillors have. One would like to think that in each mandate or five-year term councillors would have an opportunity to have an impact on the shaping of the development plan. The concern would be that, given the two years of preparation involved and the ten-year life cycle, councillors will set plans in 2024,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Variations would no longer require two thirds of members but would require a resolution, which would be a majority of those present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: There is the additional safeguard of the Planning Regulator in the event that a local authority makes a decision that does not make good planning sense from that perspective or if unusual activity takes place with regard to rezonings and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Local area plans, LAPs, are in significant demand in Dublin city’s development area. I understand ten or 11 areas have been identified for LAPs. In reality, Dublin City Council does not have the resources to carry out 11 LAPs over the lifetime of the current five-year plan. Will Mr. Hogan outline what will replace an LAP and how it will benefit the process and perhaps meet some of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I have one final question. Mr. Hogan may disagree with my view that the strategic housing development, SHD, process was not successful. I welcome the restoration of the role of local authorities. Are we ensuring that lessons have been learned from the decision to remove the voices of communities from SHDs and that people are being given an opportunity to contribute, particularly in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I may be out of time but I will engage with Mr. Hogan again in the second round of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I note the comments made by the Chair regarding the issue of the planning notice being a matter for regulation. I am happy to explore that with the Department offline. Would the Department consider tabling an amendment which, similar to all the other issues we have discussed, is about trying to give people an opportunity to have an input at the earliest possible point? People are often not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (7 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank Mr. Hogan. He has stumbled across the reason I ran aground in my Private Member's Bill on the issue and perhaps the reason I recommend the Department might take it up. I accept that complicated legal title or boundary issues can cause a problem. However, in the normal course of events, where the site notice might not be visible to a party immediately adjoining the property, it is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [6886/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the figures in the quarter 4 report. Regardless of what figures we look at, we see last year's performance on housing was better than any other year for some time. Certainly in terms of public housing, we are back to where we were in previous decades. In my constituency, there are sites off Oscar Traynor Road, Collins Avenue, St. Joseph's Hill, Parkview, Church of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: You are welcome to visit it.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 291. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the refund due in the following passport application which was cancelled in November 2020 (details supplied). [7158/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (14 Feb 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roof repair for a school (details supplied). [7290/23]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Secretary General and the full complement of officials. It looks like half the Department is with us today. I appreciate they are extremely busy in responding. I think I am correct in saying the Vote before us concerns approximately €1 billion and the Vote that will be before us for 2022 will involve approximately €2 billion, which shows the scale of the increase...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: For the record, what was the increase last year compared with 2021?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Does the Department expect a similar number for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Is it likely we will get to December and might have up to 40,000 people in emergency accommodation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: On that number, people exit in two ways. There are either granted protection or their application is denied. How many applications reached that conclusion in 2022 and are expected to do so in 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: Even if that was brought up to 100 a month, we would we talking about maybe 1,000 or 1,500 leaving-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) Paul McAuliffe: -----but with the potential for 15,000 to flow into the system.